Vocab lesson 8/8th grade

to put limitations on; to cut short; to reduce

• impart

• proficient

• totality

• curtail

to go back; to move backward; to return to an earlier condition or behavior

• animosity

• regress

• unkempt

• allegation

to give or add something, such as quality

to give information or knowledge

• impart

• oppression

• befitting

• stodgy

the act of keeping down by unjust use of power

a sense of being heavily weighed down or troubled

• defact

• animosity

• oppression

• unkempt

a formal, but not yet proved, accusation

• allegation

• stodgy

• befitting

• proficient

untidy in a way that results from neglect

• unkempt

• impart

• frivolous

• curtail

to damage or spoil the surface or appearance of

• deface

• peevish

• totality

• befitting

easily annoyed

• befitting

• stodgy

• proficient

• peevish

appropriate to; suitable or proper for

• totality

• frivolous

• regress

• befitting

dull or uninteresting due to being overly traditional or formal; boringly old-fashioned

• stodgy

• frivolous

• proficient

• brevity